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Live longer and healthier with six ways to cool inflammation

Chronic inflammatory disease accounts for 60% of deaths worldwide. In the U.S., they affect more than 125 million folks -- and around half have more than one chronic inflammatory condition. In 2014, the Rand Corporation found that 12% of adults had five or more chronic conditions! That can happen when obesity (which affects around 43% of U.S. ...Read more

Yoga and memory -- there is a connection!

Over the past 15 years, UCLA Health researchers have been exploring an interesting way to reduce your risk of developing Alzheimer's disease. They've been looking at the beneficial effect of yoga, compared to standard memory-enhancement training. Their recent study, published in Translational Psychiatry recruited 60 women ages 50 and older who ...Read more

One easy way to help your teen feel happier and mentally stronger

If you're worried about how your teenager is doing, you are not alone. A recent study by the Child Mind Institute found that almost 25% of parents are concerned about a child's mental health. The stress and isolation of the COVID-19 pandemic, global warming, wars and domestic conflicts all weigh on them -- in addition to the normal pressures and...Read more

A breakthrough in food allergy prevention

Milk, eggs, wheat, soy, tree nuts, peanuts, fish and shellfish account for 90% of the cases of food allergies that around 19 million people, including 5.5 million kids, in the U.S. contend with. Severe allergic responses send folks to the emergency room 33,000 times a year and around 150 adults and children die from an anaphylactic reaction that...Read more

How much is enough protein?

In 700 B.C., the Greek poet Hesiod said, "Moderation is the best of all things." Not something many folks follow these days: In 2022, around 23 million Americans adopted the 20% protein-based Keto diet and others opted for the 30% protein Paleo diet. In contrast, the recommended dietary allowance for protein for adults is 10% of calories.

What ...Read more

Helping moms have a healthy, happy pregnancy

There are around 3.7 million births in the U.S. every year. Unfortunately, many women face mental health challenges in the weeks surrounding delivery, making emotional distress the number one cause of pregnancy-related deaths in the U.S. It may be the case that many U.S. women have mental health challenges even before they become pregnant, or ...Read more

Yet another risk from eating saturated fats

Saturated fats show up in butter fat, meat fat, lard, cheese, and tropical oils like palm, coconut, and palm kernel oil. In the U.S., this fat accounts for around 15% of folks' total calories. The American Heart Association says that it's best if it's not more than 5%-6% of daily calories (around 13 grams).

That's because saturated fats may ...Read more

How Alzheimer's evolves; how to protect your cognitive powers

Almost 7 million Americans age 65 and older have Alzheimer's disease (AD) -- and three-quarters of them are 75-plus. But AD doesn't just pop up once you're getting Medicare. It's a slowly developing disease that new studies show produces distinct changes in your brain and body over many years.

In 2020, researchers announced a blood test to spot...Read more

Get max benefits from exercise -- for both men and women

Do you want to exercise your options for better health? Well, it turns out that women and men have been making quite different choices, according to a new study in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology.

Researchers looked at data on leisure-time physical activity for over 400,000 U.S. adults for 22 years. They found that around a ...Read more

When it's sugar vs. exercise, sugar wins and you lose

Sugar-sweetened beverages are the single largest source of added sugars in American diets. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says that 63% of adults drink sugar-sweetened beverages once a day or more. And Harvard's T. H. Chan School of Public Health reports that 5% of U.S. adults drink the equivalent of four cans of soda daily. ...Read more

Brain health and blood flow

Recent headlines declared that a study of 670,000 men showed that the erectile dysfunction drug Viagra significantly cut the risk of Alzheimer's disease by around 18%. That followed a 2021 study in Nature Aging from Dr. Mike's Cleveland Clinic that found that taking Viagra blocked the attachment of AD-associated amyloid and tau protein to ...Read more

Sleep your way to better athletic performance

Many of you say that you want to exercise more, but in one survey, 56% of adults said that they were often just too tired to do it. That epidemic of weariness isn't surprising. Almost 30% of adults get less than the needed seven hours of sleep nightly. And lack of sleep makes it difficult to exercise well.

A study in Physiology & Behavior found...Read more

Beyond a stuffy nose: Allergies can affect skin, eyes and lungs

Spring allergies to pollen from trees, grasses and weeds can be heard across the country as around 67 million adults and 14 million kids sneeze and sniffle their way through the next several months. But spring allergies can do more than cause congestion. They can also trigger an eye allergy called seasonal allergic conjunctivitis that causes ...Read more

Are you sitting on your dementia risk?

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says you're inactive if you respond "no" to this question: "During the past month, other than your regular job, did you participate in any physical activities or exercises such as running, calisthenics, golf, gardening, or walking for exercise?"

A lot of people are really, really inactive and say, ...Read more

 

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